Why we’re diving into the poo-filled Thames…but once it’s been cleaned up the river will still be brown

WITH a staggering 300 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of waste pumped into it each week – that’s a whopping 39 million tonnes each year – London’s River Thames is a modern-day open sewer. And the city’s Victorian sewage system is struggling to cope with the sheer volume of poo, toilet paper, condoms, tampons and other […]